Photo Credit: Courtesy of Boyle, Cowell, Blalock and Associates, Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich.
Swings, sandboxes and slides--once upon a time, these were the usual suspects in park playgrounds everywhere. In fact, without them, it wasn't really considered a playground.
But times have changed. Today's playgrounds are expected to be accessible and safe, and to engage a child's imagination and senses, according to Kirsten Rimes of O'Boyle, Cowell, Blalock and Associates Inc., in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Rimes, a Certified Playground Safety Inspector as well as a licensed landscape architect (and a parent of playground users as well), says that standards govern the construction and equipment of modern play areas.
